[AccessD] Downgrading Vista

Guess what? That's exactly what I did.

After the first call with that Dell idiot, I did some research. Sure enough,
if you get a box with Vista Business or Ultimate pre-installed, you can
downgrad to XP. So I called Dell back and told them that. This time they
flat refused to help me.

So I called MS. Well, credit where credit is due! After MS verified my XP cd
was a legitimate retail purchase, I got a tech guy from New Delhi (I asked
him) who was intelligent, efficient and helpful. Spoke English pretty well
too. But basically what it came down to was some pci drivers. He apologized
profusely but referred me back to Dell for assistance in disabling the
drivers.

So I said the hell with it and installed Ubuntu. I had a DVD with 10 full
distros, but I do like Ubuntu/Kubuntu the best. It's a little cranky on my
box -- no network yet -- but did a good job of picking up most of the
hardware. Tomorrow I will install XAMPP, an easy installer for Apache,
MySQL, PCP and Perl. Very painless. Then I can use this box to learn
PCP/MySQL. I have a big project I volunteered for to redo someone else's web
site -- a pretty site but gawdawful code.

For right now, it's bed time.

Thanks for all the support

Regards,
 
Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:31 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Downgrading Vista

Karen:

If the worse comes to the worse you can always switch to Ububtu Linux
(easier than XP/Vista apparently) and install Wine or Parallel so you can
run some of your MS apps. (The latest versions of Linux have no issues with
SATA drives).

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
krosenstiel at comcast.net
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:15 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Downgrading Vista

I do have a USB floppy. Got it when I got the laptop just for such current
episodes.

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Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Edward S Zuris" <edzedz at comcast.net>
> 
>  You can buy a floppy hooked to a USB.
> 
>  I have used those in the past on Laptops  with no floppy drive.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Charlotte 
> Foust
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:29 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Downgrading Vista
> 
> 
> I hope you don't really mean floppy disk, John.  My laptop doesn't 
> have floppy drives and neither do any of the others I've seen.
> 
> Charlotte Foust
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:20 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Downgrading Vista
> 
> If you have either SCSI or SATA drives you can install XP but while 
> doing so you must watch for the (initial blue) screen that asks you to 
> press F6 for additional drivers (or something to that effect). You 
> then need to have those drivers ready on a floppy disk.
> 
> HTH
> John B.
> 
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